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The dated opening of a contract from Oxyrhynchus, written in the reign of the emperor Maurice on 26 February 596. Serenos, son of Ioannes and Tekrampe, of Oxyrhynchus, is the party making the agreement; the docket on the back suggests a contract of service in which he undertook to remain with an employer.
The verso docket uses a form of paramenein, 'to remain', the technical term for late antique labour contracts in which a worker binds himself to stay in service; the word 'lease' there is restored.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Dated Heading of a Contract). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[r] [… ? lines lost …] βασιλείας τοῦ θειοτάτου καὶ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου μεγίστου εὐεργέτου Φλαουίου Μαυρικίου Νέου Τιβερίου τοῦ αἰωνίου Αὐγούστου καὶ Αὐτοκράτορος ἔτους ιδ, ὑπατείας τοῦ αὐτοῦ εὐσεβεστάτου ἡμῶν δεσπότου ἔτους ιγ, Φαμενώθ α ἰνδικτίονος ιδ . Σερῆνος υἱὸς Ἰωάνν…
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